[031]

[thegirltwin]

Phone:

Did anyone else get a visit from Jill Smith the other day? She came by my house. No one was hurt. It was just very strange. But I was wondering if anyone else had had anything similar happen to them, or had heard of anything happening.

Action:

[You can find Nina:

A. At the High School, waiting for Johan to be done with his class. While she's waiting, though, she notices one of the greaser drones trying to cram someone into a locker. It takes one quick aikido move to disable him, and shove him inside the locker instead. If the person she helped wasn't a drone themselves, she'll turn and ask if they're okay.

Or maybe you'll just bump into one another in the hallway?

B. At the Grocery Store the next morning, out shopping. She seems to be having trouble reaching some on one of the shelves, though, hopping up to try to get it and still not quite making it! Help her out?

C. Throughout the week, Nina will also be in and out of the Library, like she's supposed to be. She'll go right over if she sees anyone she knows, though... or anyone important to talk to.]

Comments

[longwhitecloud]

Who is Jill Smith?

[thegirltwin]

You don't know?

She's part of an all-drone family living on Ricardo Street. The little girl who lives with her, Lucy, is the closest thing anyone can find to a mastermind behind all of this. Jill didn't always live there. She's a replacement for Jane Smith. Jane...

[Nina pauses. Stops herself. No, this isn't good to get into over an open phone line. She might get droned or worse.]

Anyway, she's blonde and cheerful and about thirty years old, or close to it. Have you seen anyone like that? As long as I'm always asking questions, what's your name?

Phone

[drank_the_milk]

Yeah... it was pretty weird.

Phone

[thegirltwin]

Did she do anything to anyone in your house, Yuna?

A

[ukelelenogood]

[Nope. Just a school nurse passing by. Though she just stares at the greaser for a moment.]

FINISH HIM!

[thegirltwin]

[Nina turns to her once the greaser is taken care of.]

He's taken care of!

B

[riastrad_ridire]

[Poof, have a Lancer materializing on top of the shelf with the balance of something really really well-balanced.]

Need some help, kid?

[thegirltwin]

[WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP DOING THIS TO HER and why isn't she used to i by now. Nina squeaks a little and jumps back.]

Lancer!

Ah, can you hand me those noodles? [She points to a package of pasta that's too high up for to reach.]

Phone

[imjustpicky]

You mean the weird smiling lady with the casserole? [He pauses for a moment, as though waiting for confirmation... but then continues right along anyway without hearing anything.] I... I had one. We had one!

[thegirltwin]

Yes, that's right! [Oh. It's a little kid's voice.] Do you remember what happened?

[bantorain]

I'm not sure if it was Jill the person or just her drone body. It kept repeating the same lines. I think it was defective.

[thegirltwin]

I think you're right. What do you think is happening? It's almost like the town is malfunctioning.

Phone

[doudemoe]

Yes.

She came into my room.

Phone

[thegirltwin]

Let me guess. It was all of the sudden, right? With no warning at all?

[phone]

[weiss_tank]

Yeah she stopped by. Damn creepy too, like she didn't hear a word I said. I was half expectin' her to explode or somethin'.

[phone]

[thegirltwin]

That was what happened to us, too. Someone else said it's like the drones are defective. Or going haywire, somehow.

[Phone]

[sunnysnakeup]

I-if you mean the d-drone lady, she came here. She se-seemed broken though.

[Phone]

[thegirltwin]

What happened? Was anyone hurt?

A

[doesnotgetit]

[Hakuno is still getting used to going to school. Just.... going to learn. Not participating in it in a thinly veiled attempt to make things "normal" when not fighting in the Holy Grail War. So watching a teacher totally own a student was pretty awesome!]

Whoa. Nice moves.

[thegirltwin]

[Nina turns, surprised she's being watched, and then laughs, even blushing a little.]

Ah! Thank you! Just promise you won't tell and get me in trouble.

B, also, he's got an ouroboros tattoo on his left hand now

[all_ofthethings]

Need a hand, beautiful?

[Why yes, he's smirking, but he'd never pass up a damsel in distress.]

[thegirltwin]

Greed...

[Stop it. >:/

Nina can't pass up the help, though, and part of her is just glad to see him, so her face softens, and she sighs and points to a box of cereal on a shelf too high for her to reach.]

It's right up -- Uh? Hey, what happened to your hand?

phone

[godaime]

I'm not sure who Jill Smith is but if she offered you some type of casserole and then proceeded to bring up a bunch of random stuff that had nothing to do with the conversation before it then yep.

[ Beat. ]

She came from nowhere right out of my shower.

[thegirltwin]

Mmm, that's --

[HOLD THE PHONE okay if Nina was drinking something, there'd be a spittake here.]

Wait! She came out of your what?

Phone

[answerer_sword]

What did she do?

Phone

[thegirltwin]

She came around to a lot of different houses, it seems like. Offering casserole? Did anyone like that visit you?

B

[halfalegend]

Do you need some help? [This is his best 'concerned citizen' face. Because helping people is helping people!]

[thegirltwin]

O-oh! Yes, please! [Have a sweet smile! Nina always likes to meet nice people.] I can't reach that box up there! Can you get it down for me, please?

A

[getsciencedone]

[Bumping into in the hallway. GLaDOS is putting up another poster for science club on a hallway bulletin board.]

[thegirltwin]

[Nina stumbles back a little when she bumps into the other woman.] S

Sorry about that! I wasn't watching where I was going.

[She glances at the poster.]

What's that for?

[phone]

[eveningcalm]

You mean the braindead drone?

[phone]

[thegirltwin]

That's the one. I'm starting to think she visited everyone in town.